Sentence examples for upturn it from inspiring English sources

Whenever pundits talk about the timing of any economic upturn, it's never long before someone uses the phrase "green shoots of recovery".

Barring a change of heart or a wild, consumer-driven financial upturn, it looks as if Dell is out of the consumer PC business and is turning its Sauron-like eye towards the enterprise – the one place where people upgrade their PCs at least once a year.

And even with the recent upturn, it's the city where homes sit on the market for the longest by far.

There was, of course, the occasional success as well, but like the war in Iraq some of these, such as NATO's American-led rescue of Kosovo's Muslims, were ad hoc actions undertaken without the express permission (until after it was over) of the Security Council.Iraq is in itself a perfect refutation of the idea that the world was in apple-pie order before Mr Bush and Mr Blair upturned it.

The trains were filled with coal using canalside chutes at the colliery and pushed to the power station, where a hoist lifted each pan from the canal and upturned it to drop it contents onto a conveyor belt.

InterContinental did manage to open a record 439 hotels in 2009 and continued to refurbish its Holiday Inn estate and it claims it is now ready to "take full advantage of the upturn when it comes".

Relations with Britain were on an upturn, so it was a propitious time for creative diplomacy.

Last month 41% of the youngest third of the electorate expected an upturn, and it was the same this month.

"We have well-branded, profitable assets and are well positioned to benefit from the advertising upturn when it comes," said Mr Flanagan.

But the Bank is worried about turning off the taps too soon and cutting off an upturn before it is fully established.

The upturn is, it seems, affecting all of the UK's 13 regions, although prices in the south of England are rising faster than elsewhere.